A Korean national who was bitten by a stray dog was arrested after he stabbed to death another dog in Malate, Manila, police said on Tuesday, March 12.
The Manila Police District (MPD) identified the suspect as Jung Seong Ho, 42. He was arrested on Saturday, March 9.
Prior to his arrest, the police said the Korean was bitten by a stray dog while walking around Remedios Street, Barangay 700 in Malate, at around 4:10 a.m.
They said the suspect went inside a grill house in the area and asked for assistance in cleaning up the wound on his feet.
When he entered the grill house, he saw Ericka, a pet dog, sitting beside Angelo Bueno, the restaurant's waiter.
Bueno and another waiter at the grill house immediately assisted the suspect and brought him inside the establishment's comfort room to wash his wound.
However, after cleaning his wound, the police said the suspect took a knife from the kitchen and went outside where the other dogs started barking at him.
Ericka, the pet dog, also went outside. When the suspect saw this, he cornered the dog and stabbed it four times with the kitchen knife, leading to the dog’s immediate death.
After stabbing Ericka, police said the suspect also stabbed another stray dog before throwing the knife away and running back inside the restaurant's comfort room.
Barangay personnel Anthony Rodejo said that the suspect stabbed the wrong dog.
“Ang mali lang nung Koreano, ibang aso sinaksak niya, hindi yung kumagat sa kaniya (The Korean's fault is that he stabbed another dog, not the one that bit him),” he said.
The suspect was arrested after personnel of the Remedios Police Community Precinct (PCP) passed by the area and responded to the incident.
MPD Chief Brig. Gen. Arnold Thomas Ibay said the suspect possibly got irritated which drove him to stab the dogs in the area.
Ibay said that the suspect was given anti-rabies medication before he was brought to the police station.
He is now under the custody of the MPD and is facing charges for violation of the Animal Welfare Act of 1998 and malicious mischief.